Example sentences for: surmounted

How can you use “surmounted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dick Brass, Microsoft's vice president for technology development, says that the technical hurdles of screen quality and battery life have been largely surmounted.

  • The rock in question is a promontory, boldly jutting out into the sea, surmounted by a little white fishermen’s church.

  • A neo-Gothic work by Enric Sagnier, the church is surmounted by a monumental figure of Christ, one of the city’s landmarks.

  • Michelangelo wanted the tomb surmounted by the Pietà, now in the cathedral museum (see page 61), but the Florentines almost didn’t get even his body — they had to smuggle it out of Rome.

  • Near the highest elevation in Rhode Island in the woods stands a heap of rocks, a marker, about six feet high surmounted by a flat, upright slab adding another two feet to its height.


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